Sash-holder



(No Model.)

S. B. MO'RSS.

SASH HOLDER. No. 481,622. Patented Aug. 30, 1892.

Z) A 710mm.

UNITED STATES PATENT QFFICE.

STEPHEN B. MORSS, OF RAHWVAY, NEW JERSEY.

SASH-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 481,622, dated. August 30, 1892.

Application filed May 28,1891.

T0 at whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, STEPHEN B. Morass, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Rahway, in the county of Union and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Guides for Windows, 850., of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to provide an improved guide for window-sashes, screens, and similarly-sliding bars, whereby they will be held from rattling and when the woodwork swells it will not bind on the guide, as is the case with ordinary sash or windowscreen guides.

The invention consists in the novel details of improvement and the combinations of parts, that will be more fully hereinafter set forth, and then pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had tothe accompanying drawings, forming part hereof, wherein Figure l is a horizontal sectional view of a window frame and sash, showing myimprovement between the upper and lower sash; and Fig. 2 is a perspective view of. the double guide.

In the drawings the letter A indicates a window-sash, and B is the framework of a window of suitable construction.

D is my improved guide or tongue, which when made as in Fig. 2 is adapted to pass between the upper and lower window-sashes. The guide or tongue D is composed of a base part d, an 0utwardlyprojecting rib or web e, and a reversely-projecting rib or web f, connectedwith the rib e, said ribs having a space between their sides, as shown. The ribs 6 and f together preferably form an acute angle or less than an obtuse angle, while the web 6 and the base part (1 preferably form a right angle.

On each side of the base d are ribs 6 f and e f, whereby a double guide having a central space between the ribs 6 e is formed. This guide or tongue is made of thin metal and may be rolled into the desired shape. It

can be made of a single piece of metal; but of course the parts could be made separate and joined together, if desired. By placing the parts d, e, and f of the guide D at suitable angles to each other the guide will have a spring-tension. This guide is adapted to Serial No. 394,386. (No model.)

be secured to the framing of the windowcasing and to extend along the side of the sash, as shown. The base partd of the guide D may have holes to receive screws to secure it to the framing of the window. When the wood of the window-sash swells from moisture, &c., the ribs 6 and f in engagement therewith will contract correspondingly on account of their spring-tension, and thereby binding of the sash in its guide will be overcome.

This device will be specially useful in carwindows which, as now constructed, either rattle when the car is in motion or become difficult to raise or lower during wet weather on account of the swelling of the wood.

My improvement is also particularly adapted for use with window-screens, which are often made of soft cheap wood that easily swells when moist. By this means easy working of the screen is always insured and V the guide D can be readilyput in place and removed. The length of the guide D can be varied as desired.

I find it desirable to place a strip of, say, wood D between the ribs 6 e to prevent them frombeing bent together under extraordinary strains. With this arrangement the guide D may be placed between the upper and lower sashes in position similarly to the ordinary wooden strip, each web f bearing against the side of a sash, the spring-tension of the webs f holding the sash firmly, yet allowing the latter to move freely. If either sash swells, its corresponding web f will give to allow the expansion, yet always holding the sash firmly. Of course the double guide D can be placed between the sash and screen, if desired.

9 Having now described my invention, what I claim. is

1. As a new article of manufacture, a flexible guide for window-sashes, screens,and the like, consisting of a base d, ribs or webs e, eX- tending outwardly from the base and having a space between them, and webs ff, extending. from the webs e outwardly and backwardly at an angle to webs c, said guide being adapted to fit between sashes and its opposite webs f to bear on the opposite sashes.

2. A flexible guide composed of a base 61,

York and State of New York, this 26th day of May, A. D. 1891.

STEPHEN B. MORSS.

Witnesses:

T. F. BOURNE, PUREHEs MILES. 

